Investors appear to think Poundland, the UK’s largest fixed-price discounter, is picking up a bargain after it bid £55m for discount rival 99p Stores. The move sent Poundland’s shares up 15.4 per cent to close at 413.00p on Friday. The discount

Thomas Piketty is in no doubt that data underpin the conclusions of his best selling economics book, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” . He writes, in the introduction: “Compared with previous works, one reason why this book stands out is that I